The Craft of Cupcakes

The humble cupcake is on the rise, and these by the fabulous hello-naomi are a show-stopper.

Crocheting the Hyperbolic

The Institute of Figuring has been working on a crocheted version of the Great Barrier Reef, which is on exhibition at the Southbank Centre. [Article on the Institute and its work, a meeting of art and science, showing how craft can work in four dimensions.]

From Atoms to Patterns

A great exhibition at the Wellcome about the use of crystallography in 1951 Festival of Britain, called From Atoms to Patterns. Until 10 August 2008.

Embroidery

 

The fantastically surreal embroidery work of Takashii Wasaki; this piece is called ptashtako. For his entire range, see here.  [Via Design*Sponge Guest Blog]

Lace Topologies

This photograph is a section of ‘Topologies’ by Anne Wilson, whose work currently forms part of the V&A Out of the Ordinary exhibition, which I was fortunate enough to see a few weeks ago. It is beautifully intricate lacework and surprisingly dark and menacing – I kept seeing it as a lacework abstraction of the Chapman brothers’ ‘Disasters of War‘, their 1993 recreation of miniature battle scenes inspired by Goya.